Booted TOP9 from CD and had forgotten how
it tenaciously grabs any likely save file to use
from the hard drives. As a consequence the
save file it used was corrupted and rendered
useless but still mountable from other puppies.
I was able to extract everything I needed so it
was just an inconvenience.

Is there any way to keep 214X from aggressively
using any save file it thinks is appropriate at
first boot (other than pfix=ram [F2 Option] which
whizzes by rather quickly?)

It would be nice if PWGET was replaced with
PWSGET to enable the ease of secure downloads
where Login and Password are needed.

Otherwise TOP9 looked good - I'll devote more
time to walking it in the near future to see if there
are any quirks. Many thanks ttuuxxx!_________________Shuttle Spacewalker HOT-661/P Main Board:
PII-350MHz: 640MB RAM: First Puppy: 2.00
HDD Filesystem: FAT32/NTFS/ext3; Frugal Always

I downloaded and did a full install of Top9 and I am having a couple of problems. Firefox won't run, and Gxine won't run. I have tried running both from the terminal to see if I get any error messages. The only message I get is "Illegal Instruction". With Gxine there is a jump in cpu usage for a second or two, but then it drops back down and the words "Illegal Instruction" appear in the terminal window. It's as if gxine tries to run but then does something "illegal" and gets shut down.

At the moment, it doesn't matter if Firefox runs or not because 214x top9 doesn't see my modem. Are there any plans to add any more modem drivers? Maybe add all the ones puppy 4.3.1 has? I say that because puppy 4.3.1 sees my modem ok. It is what I am running now as I post this.

If it will help, I am running a Compaq 7470 with 192 megs of ram. The hard drive has a 1 gig swap partition on it. The rest of the 30gig hard drive is divided into two partitions. There is a full intsall of puppy 431retro on the first one, and a full install of 214x top 9 on the other.

I downloaded and did a full install of Top9 and I am having a couple of problems. Firefox won't run, and Gxine won't run. I have tried running both from the terminal to see if I get any error messages. The only message I get is "Illegal Instruction". With Gxine there is a jump in cpu usage for a second or two, but then it drops back down and the words "Illegal Instruction" appear in the terminal window. It's as if gxine tries to run but then does something "illegal" and gets shut down.

At the moment, it doesn't matter if Firefox runs or not because 214x top9 doesn't see my modem. Are there any plans to add any more modem drivers? Maybe add all the ones puppy 4.3.1 has? I say that because puppy 4.3.1 sees my modem ok. It is what I am running now as I post this.

If it will help, I am running a Compaq 7470 with 192 megs of ram. The hard drive has a 1 gig swap partition on it. The rest of the 30gig hard drive is divided into two partitions. There is a full intsall of puppy 431retro on the first one, and a full install of 214x top 9 on the other.

I downloaded and did a full install of Top9 and I am having a couple of problems. Firefox won't run, and Gxine won't run. I have tried running both from the terminal to see if I get any error messages. The only message I get is "Illegal Instruction". With Gxine there is a jump in cpu usage for a second or two, but then it drops back down and the words "Illegal Instruction" appear in the terminal window. It's as if gxine tries to run but then does something "illegal" and gets shut down.

At the moment, it doesn't matter if Firefox runs or not because 214x top9 doesn't see my modem. Are there any plans to add any more modem drivers? Maybe add all the ones puppy 4.3.1 has? I say that because puppy 4.3.1 sees my modem ok. It is what I am running now as I post this.

If it will help, I am running a Compaq 7470 with 192 megs of ram. The hard drive has a 1 gig swap partition on it. The rest of the 30gig hard drive is divided into two partitions. There is a full intsall of puppy 431retro on the first one, and a full install of 214x top 9 on the other.

--Ken

this is very strange, please run gxine and firefox from the the terminal and report any messages, which modem are you using? also please report any errors in /tmp/xerrs.log
ttuuxxx

As my original post stated, when I run Gxine or Firefox from the terminal I get the message "Illegal Instruction". That is the only message I get. I will have to reboot and run top9 before I can check the xerrs.log. I will post again after I do this.

My modem is a HSP56 Micromodem.

Firefox and Gxine aren't compiled for a i686, are they? I have seen the teminal message "Illegal Instruction" before with stuff that was compiled for a i686. This computer is almost 12 years old now. It doesn't have a i686 cpu. I think it's a 586, or what ever an AMD k6-2 is.

I downloaded and did a full install of Top9 and I am having a couple of problems. Firefox won't run, and Gxine won't run. I have tried running both from the terminal to see if I get any error messages. The only message I get is "Illegal Instruction". With Gxine there is a jump in cpu usage for a second or two, but then it drops back down and the words "Illegal Instruction" appear in the terminal window. It's as if gxine tries to run but then does something "illegal" and gets shut down.
--Ken

this is very strange, please run gxine and firefox from the the terminal and report any messages, which modem are you using? also please report any errors in /tmp/xerrs.log
ttuuxxx

Just possibly this may be of use.
(2.14X-TOP9 frugal)

When I run firefox from the mrxvt terminal, I immediately get "Illegal instruction". And nothing is added onto /tmp/xerrs.log.

When I run gxine from the terminal, it takes about 8 seconds for the "Illegal instruction". And nothing is added onto /tmp/xerrs.log.

Still using 214X Top 9, it's great. My only request for 10 would be for more modern versions of Gnumeric (which have options to autofit the column width), and perhaps Abiword too, which can open later Open Office or Word files than Top 9 can - would that be possible?

Sorry if this question has been asked before(such a long thread). I frugal installed 2.14X-Top9 in addition to Slacko 513 and Lighthouse Puppy 503g but was unable to boot into it, the screen stops at " init is the parent of all processes". Adding pfix=ram doesn't solve the problem. Any help appreciated.

I've just downloaded the Seamonkey-2.3.3.pet from wisdom-seekers.com and used Rox-filer to installed it in 214X-TOP and then rebooted the PC but it still fails to work when I click the menu icon. What's missing or done wrongly? Please help.

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